Judica Sunday

From the start of the introit for the Mass of that day: Judica me, Deus (judge me, O God).

Judica Sunday

1. (Christianity) Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent.
   • 1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XV^th, XVI^th and XVII^th Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)

     Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.

   • 1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:

     The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica Sunday, 3Oth March.

   • 1950, Luther League Review, Lutheran Church in America

     The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.

• (Passion Sunday): Care Sunday, Carle Sunday, Carling Sunday, Passion Sunday

• Passiontide